Recently added articles from Advancing Women in Leadership:
Daring to Lead: The Logic Behind the Leadership Practices of a Successful Female Leader
Apr 01, 2008; ... Abstract Felicia Mabuza-Suttle is the first black woman to host a television talk show in South Africa and her success has often been compared to that of Oprah Winfrey, the American 'queen' of talk show. Inspired by Nelson Mandela's call to all South Africans of the Diaspora to return ...
Advancing Women Into Educational Leadership in Developing Countries: The Case of Uganda
Apr 01, 2008; ... Abstract The need for women in leadership positions in schools in developing countries is important to ensure sensitivity within schools for the wellbeing of adolescent girls, to provide girls beginning to consider career choices with role models of women decision-makers and leaders, and ...
In Search of Leaders: Gender Factors in School Administration
Apr 01, 2008; ... Abstract Research points to a current and growing shortage of school leaders, yet qualified women are still under represented in school administration. The purpose of this study was to examine the career paths of male and female school leaders and their perceptions of gender factors that ...
The Women are Coming': Women's Participation in Lesotho Local Governance
Apr 01, 2008; ... Abstract When 20,000 South Africa women in March 1956 matched to the Union Buildings to protest against the government passed laws (Department of Arts and Culture, 2006), little did anyone know that South Africa will be one of the leading countries in the world in terms of women's ...
Exploring Women's Career Development: Implications for Theory and Practice
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract With a few notable exceptions, most research into the occupational experiences of women is typically macro-social, and based on large-scale, impersonal, aggregated, and static data. Whilst such data reveal the position of women in the workforce relative to men, they do not ...
Hegemonic Masculinity, Homosociality and Collaboration within the Field of Sport Management: Exploring the Issues
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract In the interest of promoting greater collaboration, the authors discussed gender-specific professional interactions in the sports management field. The authors discussed various areas of research including material indicating male professionals are more likely to collaborate on ...
Incentives for Entrepreneurship at University: Differences between Men and Women
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract In this paper, our aim is to determine what type of additional training, other than regular university courses and work experience before graduation, can be promoted by universities to encourage an entrepreneurial orientation in men and women. For this purpose, we analyzed a ...
Just Do It: Women Superintendents Speak to Aspiring Women
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract A mixed method study using surveys and in-depth interviews was conducted with women school superintendents in four Midwestern states during the 1999-2000 school year to understand how they perceive their leadership skills and their uses of power in their positions, and also to ...
Seeking Culturally Attentive Career Advancement Strategies for Women: Perspectives from Zimbabwean Women
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract While Zimbabwean women have penetrated the workforce, few women have gained access to senior management positions in organizations. Moreover, there is scarcity of information on women managers in Zimbabwe. The current study offers a preliminary analysis of Zimbabwean women ...
Women Hospital CEOs: Fact or Fiction a Continuation
Jan 01, 2008; ... Abstract Four women hospital chief executive officers (CEOs) from two counties were surveyed as part of an expanding study to examine and compare their responses to those previously secured from women in a county where women hospital CEOs are underrepresented. Three tools were used to ...
Black Women Teacher Educators: Creating Enduring Afriographies as Leaders and Change Makers
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract ithin the womanist tradition, Black women have fought against multiple oppressions through the construction of enduring afriographies , as leaders and change-makers, and as scholars committed to research and service in and for communities of color (Henry, 1998; Hill, 2002; ...
Finding My Voice:An African-American Female Professor at a Predominantly White University
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract Drawing from her personal experience, the author shares concrete examples from her promotion and tenure review, including the experience of social integration issues and the ramifications that the higher education environment had on her personal and professional attitudes as an ...
Telling Stories: Examining the Views of an African-Centered Female Minority Leader
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract Many educators believe that unless a determined effort is made to include cultural relevance in public school curriculums, public education will continue to fail African-American students. In fact, the quality of one's experience in education and in the community is often ...
Educating for Social Justice: The Life and Times of Septima Clark in Review
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract One of the most important goals of teacher education programs is to train preservice teachers on how to teach for social justice (Atweh, Kemmis, & Weeks, 1998). Educating for social justice is teaching people how to make just and democratic contributions to their communities ...
On Becoming and Being Faculty-Leaders in Urban Education and also Being African- American...Seems Promising
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract Seven African-American women and men faculty members at a Southeastern urban research university reflect on their collective experiences of creating an intellectual community and spearheading an urban teacher education initiative within their School of Education . Employing a ...
Life Notes about the Dual Careers of a Black Female: Race and Gender Politics in Public School Administration and Higher Education Professorship
Jan 01, 2007; ... Abstract This article is written from the experiential and theoretical perspectives that I encountered as a Black female public school educator who, after twenty-plus years of public school teaching and administrative experiences, became an assistant professor at a predominately White ...
The Educational Leadership of Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
Jan 01, 2007; ... Anna Julia Haywood Cooper (1859-1964) was one of the most influential African-American educators of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Heralded as a community activist, author, and scholar, Cooper dedicated her entire life to the education and empowerment of African-American youth and ...
Linking Literacy and Community Development: A Case Study of Women in New Orleans
Oct 01, 2006; ... Abstract This paper examines the impact of a family literacy program in New Orleans , developed in response to low literacy levels, high drop-out rates, and a corresponding lack of resident participation in community development efforts in the area. The program, Toyota Families for ...
Feminist Leadership: Building Nurturing Academic Communities
Oct 01, 2006; ... American higher education currently faces "harsh realities" (Altbach, 1999). "It has been argued," according to Altbach, "that higher education's golden age - the period of strong enrollment growth, increasing research budgets, and general public support - is over" (p. 272). There is a wave of ...
Pedagogical Implications of "Becoming Wide-Awake": Commemorating the Tenth Anniversary of the Publication of Releasing the Imagination by Maxine Greene
Oct 01, 2006; ... In my own quest for knowledge and beyond knowledge, wisdom, I read Maxine Greene's book, Releasing the Imagination . I sought guidance from Greene to re-form my own pedagogy related to teacher education. The tenth anniversary of its publication seemed an apropos time to consider its continuing ...